Malachy McCourt Quotes

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• Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

  Malachy McCourt

  Political, Brain, Damage

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

  Malachy McCourt

  Compassion, Crime, Facets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

  Malachy McCourt

  Hard Work, People, Purpose

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Excuse, Said

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.

  Malachy McCourt

  Beautiful, Laughter, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

  Malachy McCourt

  Thinking, Saint, Edited

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

  Malachy McCourt

  Want, Moments, Do Whatever You Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

  Malachy McCourt

  School, Talking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

  Malachy McCourt

  Knows

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

  Malachy McCourt

  Foundation, Liquid, Used

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

  Malachy McCourt

  Father, Drinking, Leaving

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  Malachy McCourt

  Laughter, Children, Powerful

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• I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

  Malachy McCourt

  Children, Years, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

  Malachy McCourt

  Song, Silly, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

  Malachy McCourt

  Stuff, Way, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

  Malachy McCourt

  Democracy, Speak, Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

  Malachy McCourt

  Giving, Dying, Tickets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

  Malachy McCourt

  Flower, Bees, Avoided

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

  Malachy McCourt

  Party, Thinking, Names

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Awful, Disease, Dread

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

  Malachy McCourt

  Like You, Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  Malachy McCourt

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.

  Malachy McCourt

  Dream, New York, Fruition

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

  Malachy McCourt

  Father, Disease, Alcoholics

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

  Malachy McCourt

  Thinking, Awful, Come Up

  Source: bigthink.com

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